Philippa Woodcock

Dr Philippa Woodcock is a Lecturer in European History at the University of the Highlands and Islands' Centre for History. She specializes in early modern European history and visual culture, with research interests in the Reformation, landscape and fashion history, and political/cultural interchange between France and Italy. She holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London (2006) and has held academic positions at Warwick, Oxford Brookes, Sussex and other institutions. Her research explores themes like foreignness in early modern diplomacy, religious-landscape interactions, and Huguenot diaspora networks.

She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including works on Venetian embassies, fortified churches, and Huguenot ministers. Her work received the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize for best article on French history (2011). She currently supervises PhD students in early modern religious and political history, and teaches modules on European cultural history, public history, and primary sources. Dr Woodcock also serves as Co-Editor of The Court Historian, an external examiner, and organizes conferences on court studies and early modern topics.